Network Architect

• Define network architecture standards for routing, switching, and wireless across enterprise-scale deployments.
• Lead technical design reviews and own the blueprint for how network devices are configured, validated, and brought into production.
• Establish and govern change control frameworks, onboarding workflows, and configuration standards across the program.
• Drive hardware readiness strategy, from procurement through staging to go-live, ensuring project data accuracy and full traceability.
• Own escalation and resolution of complex engineering issues, including those coordinated with the customer's third-party partners.
• Provide technical direction and oversight to engineering teams, ensuring work is well-scoped, properly assigned, and executed to standard.
• Hold accountability for third-party technical delivery; define expectations, review deliverables, and ensure timelines align with program milestones in partnership with the Project Manager.
• Define wireless documentation standards, including floor plan and AutoCAD artifact governance, and ensure accuracy across all active deployments.
• Lead the operationalization of support models, including defining what sustainable in-house capability looks like independent of third-party involvement.
• Identify systemic process gaps and drive cross-functional solutions in partnership with project and operations leadership.
• Serve as the senior technical liaison to downstream partners, including wireless deployment teams, electrical teams, and managed service providers

Qualifications:

Required:

• Deep expertise in enterprise routing and switching; ability to design, validate, and govern network architecture at scale.
• Proven experience leading network design and implementation across large, multi-site programs.
• Experience with wireless architecture and documentation standards (floor plans, AutoCAD).
• Ability to establish technical standards, governance frameworks, and documentation practices.
• Experience designing and defining change control and project delivery processes.
• Strong communication skills; able to represent technical strategy clearly to engineering, operations, and managed-service stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical oversight and hold third-party partners accountable to deliverables.
• Background managing technical relationships with managed service providers at a leadership level.
• Experience driving enterprise-scale network refresh or deployment programs end-to-end.
• Ability to bridge technical architecture and program delivery in a matrixed environment.